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"are personally against gay marriage" "homosexuality is wrong" "homosexuality will degrade the morality of society" Maybe I'm really, really, thick, but how
by bowlofpetunias 13y ago
"are personally against gay marriage"
"homosexuality is wrong"
"homosexuality will degrade the morality of society"
Maybe I'm really, really, thick, but how is this not hateful?
The obvious exercise would be to replace homosexuality with being black or Jewish. I'm not saying this to score cheap points, but to illustrate how I personally read this.
I'm very sorry, and I respect the fact that we're talking about people who are very dear to you, but cannot read those phrases as anything other than expressions of hatred.
- cube_yellow 13y agoGiven a moral framework, the third statement is an empirical statement. Given a traditional Christian moral framework, as an example, the third statement is true. If you believe that a traditional Christian moral framework is necessary for Western civilization to continue, then that justifies the first two statements. For the United States, then, the major task is to argue that a traditional Christian moral framework isn't necessary for Western civilization to survive.
- adrr 13y agoThing is that we don't use a traditional christian framework. We throw out most of the old testament and much of the focus is on the new Gospel. Explicit line against gays lies in Leviticus, and like most of Leviticus should be ignored.
- cube_yellow 13y ago> we who?